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Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences: Teachers’ Guide for Biology

The contents of the Biology strand of Nuffield Co-ordinated Sciences were broadly the same in both the first and second editions of the publications. The second edition of the Teachers’ Guide showed how the course matched to the 1992 version of the National Curriculum.

Contents of both editions
Introduction to Biology
Topic B1: The variety of organisms
Chapter B1: What's what?
Chapter B2: Many forms of life

Topic B2: The processes of life
Chapter B3: Light means life
Chapter B4: How do animals feed?
Chapter B5: The gut as a food processor
Chapter B6: Diet and good health
Chapter B7: The breath of life
Chapter B8: Transport round the organism
Chapter B9: Keeping going
Chapter B10: Skeletons and muscles
Chapter B11: Detecting changes
Chapter B12: Keeping things under control

Topic B3: Living organisms and their environment
Chapter B13: Making sense of an environment
Chapter B14: The webs of life
Chapter B15: Salts and cycles
Chapter B16: Staying alive
Chapter B17: Farms, factories and the environment
Chapter B18: To destroy or to conserve?

Topic B4: The continuity of life
Chapter B19: Living things multiply
Chapter B20: People are different
Chapter B21: Growing up
Chapter B22: Handing on to the next generation
Chapter B23: Changing with time

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